Muni Simple Routes: San Francisco Transit Cartographic Data

Muni Simple Routes provides current public transit route data for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. The dataset is exported from the Trapeze scheduling system and includes full-length inbound and outbound route patterns as separate polylines. It is updated by sign-up approximately every 3-6 months when transit system changes take effect.

Use Cases

• Create transit network maps based on route polylines.
• Perform spatial analyses of route density and coverage.
• Integrate route geometry with stop data from the agency's website for system modeling.

Strengths

• Includes separate inbound and outbound polylines for detailed spatial representation.
• Explicitly identifies Cable Car routes (59, 60, 61) for specific analysis.
• Update frequency is documented as every 3-6 months via a sign-up process.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

City of San Francisco

Collection Method

Exported from the Trapeze scheduling system and filtered for full-length patterns.

Freshness

Updated by sign-up approximately every 3-6 months.

Geography

San Francisco, CA, USA